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My Next Life as a Villainess U.K. Blu-ray Released on Monday

On Monday April 8, Anime Limited will release a Blu-ray of the first 12-part season of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!.

J-Novel Club digitally published the novels, and it described the story:

After hitting her head particularly hard one day, Duke Claes' daughter, Katarina, suddenly recalls all the memories of her past life: that of a teenage Japanese girl. Just before her untimely death, this girl recalls playing an otome game... that is exactly like the world she's living in now!

She is now Katarina Claes, the antagonist of the otome game, who nastily hounded the protagonist until the end. Knowing all the possible outcomes of the game, she realizes that every single possible route ends with Katarina being murdered or exiled! In order to avoid these Catastrophic Bad Ends, she has to use her knowledge of the game and her own wiles, starting with breaking off this engagement with the prince...

Will Katarina survive while making her way through this world, where bad flags trip at every turn? Find out in this reverse-harem rom-com, led by everybody's favorite villainess!

Keisuke Inoue (Ao-chan Can't Study!) directed the series at SILVER LINK. Megumi Shimizu (Butlers x Battlers, Snow White with the Red Hair) oversaw the series scripts, and Miwa Oshima (Ao-chan Can't Study!, Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts) adapted Nami Hidaka's character designs for animation.

The duo angela performed the opening theme song "Shōjo no Route wa Hitotsu Janai!" (There Isn't Just One Route for a Girl!) Shōta Aoi performed the ending theme song "Bad End."

Crunchyroll will release a Blu-ray edition of the series The Legendary Hero is Dead!. Southeast Asian publisher Shogakukan Asia licensed the manga, and it described the story:

Touka is just your average (slightly perverted) farmer in the village of Cheza. While he daydreams about being a hero and getting the girl, the real hero, Sion, is out battling demons that threaten to invade the world! But one day, Touka accidentally kills the hero…?! With the Legendary Hero dead, who's going to save the world now?! Touka quickly buries Sion's body to hide the evidence, but wakes up the next day to discover he is no longer in his own body…!!

Rion Kujo (Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, s.CRY.ed) directed the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Kanako Nishi and Yukio Kondо̄ of MOKA☆ composed the music. Tohokushinsha handled sound production, and Pony Canyon was in charge of music production. WOWMAX produced the anime.

MVM will release a standard Blu-ray edition of the 2000 series NieA_7.